William Lindsey
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I'm a theologian who writes about the interplay of belief and culture, spirituality and its connection to social activism, challenging the religious right's claim to own God, calling the churches to accountability for injustice to LGBT persons, creating dialogue with anyone who wants to build a more humane world, and stopping bullying of LGBT youth in schools.
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Bilgrimage
http://www.bilgrimage.blogspot.com/
Me on pilgrimage, sharing my journey to hope's horizon . . . . I'm a theologian who writes about the interplay of belief and culture, spirituality and its connection to social activism, challenging the religious right's claim to own God, calling the churches to accountability for injustice to LGBT persons, creating dialogue with anyone who wants to build a more humane world, and stopping bullying of LGBT youth in schools.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )
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A Reader Writes: "In History, This Sort of Gender Binary Essentialism Has Been a...
In response to my posting on Thursday about the lack of socioeconomic analysis of family and what it takes to sustain family at the Vatican colloquium on... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Archbishop Chaput's Forecast for the 2015 Synod on the Family: Gays Out of Sight...
For Religion News Service, Josephine McKenna reports that Archbishop Charles Chaput told the Vatican colloquium on gender issues this week that, at its final... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes: I Don't Take "Inevitable" Progress for Granted
In response to my posting yesterday about NOM's (purported?) economic collapse, mgardener writes:Women thought their rights to contraceptives and abortion were... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
NOM's Economic Collapse: Mark Joseph Stern on Whys and Wherefores
At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern offers three possible explanations for why the donor base of "the viciously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage" (his... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Readers Write: At Vatican Colloquium on Gender Complementarity, Where Was the...
Two very valuable pieces of commentary in the last two days by readers here, about who was in the control seat at the Vatican colloquium on male-female... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Theologian José Arregi on Synod on Family: Was It Worth It?
At her Iglesia Descalza site, Rebel Girl offers a translation of commentary on the synod on the family by Basque theologian José Arregi from the journal Redes... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
On Eve of Arkansas Supreme Court Hearing on Marriage Equality, We Lose a...
This is a posting I'm composing with a heavy heart. Readers who have followed this blog for some time may remember that when Steve and I married in Little Rock... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mormons Celebrating Pope Francis's Affirmation of Traditional Family Values:...
Big headline in Salt Lake City's Deseret News yesterday:Pope reinforces traditional family values.Deseret News is a semi-official organ of the Church of Jesus... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes — Cardinal Müller to Vatican Colloquium on Complementarity: "Bot...
I hope I'm not being too chatty here today. There seems to be so much to talk about, and I never read through a day's worth of comments on threads here without... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes: Re: Christians and the Gay Community, "Is It Really a Matter...
In response to my posting earlier today about evangelical leader David Gushee's change of mind re: standing in solidarity with gay human beings (rather than... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
David Gushee on the Difference Between Being a Bystander and Standing in...
In an interview at Religion Dispatches with Candace Chellew-Hodge, evangelical theologian David Gushee explains what has caused him to make his "existential cor... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More Catholic Voices on "Jesus' Effusion of Inclusion, Love and Mercy"
Mark 1:1 (NRSV)In addition to Jerry Slevin, whose latest essay on Pope Francis and structural reform of the Catholic church I've just discussed, other Catholic... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Jerry Slevin on Pope Francis as a Ray of Hope in a Crisis of Trust — A Holy Mess
At his Christian Catholicism site, Jerry Slevin maintains that if Pope Francis represents "a ray of hope" for the Catholic church, as many Catholics wish to... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "If Christ Is Undiscovered Now . . . That...
James Carroll, in Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age (NY: Viking, 2014):Whatever sort of God Jesus is understood to be, it must be the God who... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Pope Francis to Vatican Conference —...
Joshua McElwee commenting on Pope Francis's opening address to the Vatican colloquium on the complementarity of male and female:"We now live in a culture of... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
How People Speak of Gender of God As Predictor of Their Stance on Same-Sex...
At Huffington Post, Antonia Blumberg reports on a recently published article by sociologist Andrew L. Whithead which shows that the gender people choose to... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Maureen Fiedler on Vatican Colloquium About Male-Female Complementarity: Pope...
In an essay she published Friday at National Catholic Reporter, Sister Maureen Fiedler notes that the word to be featured in the upcoming Vatican colloquium on... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?: A Booknote
This is a booknote I've been meaning to share with all of you for some days now. I call it a "booknote" rather than a review of this book deliberately: I'm not... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Father Tom Doyle on Sexual Abuse by Clergy: An Audio File from Presentation to...
Post by Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.Finally today, I want to share with you another educational resource — this one, a link to an audio file of a... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Updates on Two Catholic Abuse Stories: Cardinal O'Malley on Bishop Finn and...
Two updates on previous stories I've told here about the clerical abuse situation in various parts of the Catholic world. The first has to do with Bishop... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
